This is the final match of the 2010 Online Shooter Showdown. Voting for this match will end on July 3rd, 2010 at 12:01 AM Central.

Unlike the MMORPG Showdowns, voting in this thread will have a large say in determining the winning game because each review score in the Review Directory will be multiplied by the percentage of votes received here. For example, a game that had a 9 in the Review Directory and won all of the votes here would have an overall score of 9. If a game had a 9 in the review directory but tied here, that game would have an overall score of 4.5 because it only won 50% of the vote. In the event of an overall tie, voting will be determined via comments.

The weakness with AVA is that it doesn't offer as many features as Bad Company 2. Bad Company 2 and AVA are actually really, really similar, except Bad Company 2 also has the Frostbite Engine with destructable environments (and better graphics, despite AVA using UE3), as well as a thousand smaller features to encourage teamwork.

Also, AVA being a free game means it uses an in-game money system that basically inhibits you from buying any more than 3 weapons for a long time, if you don't cough up real money, or make another account. If you do pay up money, then you can get lots of weapons, as well as a lot of armour and accessories for your character. BC2, being a retail game, only has you buy map packs like most other retail FPSs.

And ogreman, you've tried to link both games to their proper review page instead of the voting pages, and for the AVA link, you've inserted in 'forum', which makes it broken anyway.

Good final match! Both are awesome shooters. I went with AVA because it is a 100% Internet game and I love escort mode.

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What, so because Bad Company 2 has an EXTRA single player mode, and isn't COMPLETELY online multiplayer, it isn't as good as if it was COMPLETELY online multiplayer and didn't have the single player content?

I do agree that Escort mode is pretty cool, but for me, it's for a shameful reason; because I can get a really, really high score on it, much higher than anyone else, from just playing the objective.